When studying the health care provided at alpha hospital in new york city, anthropologist khiara bridges documented health-care professionals referring to black women as "primitive" and stating that black women were better able to withstand pain than white women. where did these attitudes stem from?

These attitudes stemed from prejudice and customs in the medical professions, where there were widespread stories about bodies of black women.

Khiara Bridges is an American anthropologist who specializes in the intersectionality of race, law and reproductive justice. The aforementioned study comes from her research on women's prenatal, natal and post-natal experiences. These experiences are widely influenced by race and class.

She published her research in the book called Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization.

the arab empire adopted the muslim religion as their main belief. arabs would influence the people from the territories they invaded towards islam (the muslim belief).

nevertheless, throughout the history of the arab empire, rulers brought intellectual individuals from other religions to their centers of learning. these other foreigners included jews, christians, greeks, persians, and indians.   these resulted in the adoption of important knowledge developed by these cultures by the arabic empire. for example, the works of aristotle were translated from greek to arab and indian scientists brought the numerical concept of "zero" to the arabs.

nowadays, 93% of the arab population is muslim, which at the same time is subdivided in sects including the sunni, zaini, alawi, shia. the remaining 7% is composed mainly of christians.